OpenSea OpenSea Walks Back IPO After Backlash OpenSea Chief Financial Officer mentions plans to IPO, then reels back after community backlash.
Loopring (LRC) Loopring Takes Off On Rumors of Powering GameStop NFT Marketplace There are a lot of signs pointing towards GameStop launching an NFT marketplace on Loopring (LRC), and that's being reflected in the price.
Metaverse Metaverse Cryptos Pump Following Facebook Rebrand Facebook's META rebrand brought renewed attention to metaverse crypto projects, led by Decentraland (MANA).
NFT Pro Sports NFTs: On-Chain and Officially Licensed As the NFT market matures, existing corporations are entering the space using their brands and intellectual property to create NFT games and collectibles.
Company Highlight Yield Guild Games Spotlight Yield Guild Games (YGG) is helping people in the developing world make 5-10x their money by playing games.
Adoption High Gas Fees Bring Trouble and Opportunity Ethereum's high gas fees are opening the door for competition to eat up market share.
NFT Instagram Is Rolling Out NFT Support Instagram has begun rolling out their NFT integrations, pulling info from crypto wallets and tagging ownership.
Axie Infinity (AXS) Sky Mavis Raises $150M to Compensate for Ronin Hack Sky Mavis, maker of Axie Infinity, raised $150M primarily from Binance to make investors whole after their Ronin sidechain was hacked for $600M.
Shopify (SHOP) Shopify Adds NFT Support Shopify has launched an NFT platform beta to their US Plus customers.
Company Highlight Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter, rebrands Square to Block Jack Dorsey has left Twitter, leaving its crypto ambitions in question. Dorsey is now full time at Square, which has rebranded to Block.
Ethereum (ETH) Coinbase Wallet Launches Browser Extension This past week, Coinbase launched their own web wallet extension to compete with MetaMask, bringing much of the convenience of using Coinbase natively to the web3 browser experience.
NFT The New York Stock Exchange Files Patent for NFT Marketplace The New York Stock Exchanged filed a patent for an NFT marketplace, with specific focuses on the metaverse.
CryptoMines CryptoMines Reinvents the Rug Pull At its height, CryptoMines' token, ETERNAL, had a market cap of almost $3 billion, but now it's worth $13 million.
Non Fungible Token Ubisoft is Launching In-Game NFTs Ubisoft is launching in-game NFTs. Their beta platform is live now and issues free NFTs.
FTX FTX Expanding NFT Markets, Raising Billions FTX is raising billions to expand to new markets, and launch their NFT marketplace globally.
Adoption Steam Bans NFT Games, Epic Welcomes Them This week Steam banned and delisted NFT games; in response, Epic games has publicly welcomed them.
Adoption Bored Ape Yacht Club Auction Sells for $24 Million A collection of 101 Bored Ape Yacht Club Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) sold for $24 Million this week at a Sotheby's auction.
NFT BAYC’s Land Sale Jacks Up ETH Gas Price, Wastes $80M Bored Ape Yacht Club and Yuga Labs launched a land sale for their metaverse, Otherside. The sale minted 100,000 NFTs and $561M in sales.
NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club Creator, Yuga Labs, Buys CryptoPunks and Meebits Yuga Labs acquired the CryptoPunks and Meebits intellectual property and over 2,000 NFTs from Larva Labs.
NFT Active OpenSea Attack Takes Millions An active OpenSea attack has taken millions so far in ETH and rare NFTs.
NFT NFT Tickets: NFT Super Bowl Tickets, Coachella's Lifetime NFT Tickets Both the NFL and Coachella rolled out plans to integrate NFTs with their ticketing. Coachella's version will be lifetime tickets.
Solana (SOL) Hacker: OpenSea is Adding Solana NFTs and Phantom Wallet Support Hacked screenshots from Jane Manchun Wong suggest OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, is adding support for Solana NFTs and the Phantom wallet.
NFT Walmart is Planning Its Own Metaverse, NFTs, and Token Walmart's recent patent filings show the retailer intends to build its own crypto metaverse, mint NFTs, and issue its own cryptocurrency token.
POAP POAP Intro and GitPOAPs POAPs, essentially NFT badges for attendance at events, is launching a Git integration that may become the new software resume.
NFT The All.Art Protocol Brings Licensing and Liquidity Pools to NFTs All.Art introduces two NFT features: automated market makers (AMM) for NFTs, and tiered licensing for NFT art. All.Art uses its AART token for transactions.